Salary: $400,000 per year; contract runs through 2022 Kobach, who served as vice chairman of Trump’s vote fraud commission, and Marshall, a two-term congressman, are battling to succeed Sen. Pat Roberts, a veteran Republican legislator who is retiring. Barbara Bollier 2. Q: Do the COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility? Matt Tait KU Men's Basketball Reporter mtait@ljworld.com. Enter your email to read this article for free. Potential KU AD Candidates: — Joe Parker, 53, Colorado State University AD. Must read content, player grades, stuff you can't get anywhere else. That’s the issue.”, In an editorial critical of the ad campaign, the newspaper said that if “the Club for Growth sees Marshall as too big a spender, they should run ads against him on that basis rather than highlighting generic, anonymous complaints that imply he’s guilty of something terrible without ever spelling out what that something is.”, Firing back in an ad that first aired April 28 in the Wichita/Hutchinson market, Keep Kansas Great tries to show there is significant daylight between Kobach, a longtime staunch Trump supporter, and the president. “We’re very pleased with how they’re governing,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh told The Hill newspaper last year. First the ad shows text saying, “Trump has called the club ‘pathetic’ and ‘phony,'” citing an article from 2015. Here's the top six who could be in line to replace Miles at Kansas. But Kobach lost the general election to Democrat Laura Kelly, an upset in a state with a deep red political tradition. 1. President Trump has governed as a free-market conservative, cutting taxes, trying to get rid of Obamacare, deregulating the oil and energy industry, deregulating the internet. He didn’t get the job. Usha Reddi 3. Robert T… Paul Tuten(None) Democratic primary candidates 1. A Kansas athletic director has been fired for the second time in three years. And, as we, Trump Misquotes Fauci on Coronavirus Threat, Trump’s COVID-19 Testing Claim Is Way Off. The Spun - Dan Lyons • 11h. The conservative pro-business group backed Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. In this Nov. 18, 2018, file photo, Les Miles, left, is introduced as Kansas football coach by athletic director Jeff Long, right, during a news conference in Lawrence. Jun 19, 2018 - 12:05pm. Terry Mohajir, Arkansas State AD. Current status: 3 years at CSU. The Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission and the Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association, along with the Kansas … To support the idea that Club for Growth is anti-Trump, the ad misleadingly includes quotes from Trump criticizing the organization during the 2016 primary, when the two were at odds. Kansas is a difficult job, will likely always be overshadowed by the men’s basketball team, and becoming a program that makes annual bowl games is an aggressive goal. Kurt Watson will serve as the interim athletic director as the school searches for both an AD and football coach. It will be updated following the primary on August 4, 2020. The ad featured quotes from women, identified only by their first names, who were critical of the doctor in online reviews for being “insensitive” or “arrogant.”. Mike DeBord, who was hired as Kansas' offensive coordinator on Feb. 2, will serve as the program's acting head coach until an interim head coach is … This next hire — made possible by the Wednesday exit of Jeff Long, which followed the Monday exit of Les Miles — will be tasked first and foremost with hiring a new football coach at a place that has not won more than three games in a season since 2009. Kansas AD Jeff Long fired after Les Miles debacle ... but chancellor Douglas Girod may want to ensure the next athletic director is in place before focusing on candidates. He also was interim AD … And it’s working.”, In February, McIntosh told Vanity Fair, “One of the biggest changes is, and you can label it nationalism or populism, essentially Trump has brought back what we used to call Reagan Democrats — he does it with a theme of ‘Make America Great Again,’ but it’s American populism.”. He also put $65 million into Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. The group, called Keep Kansas Great, charges in the ad that “Kobach’s Senate campaign is being bankrolled by an anti-Trump D.C. special interest group.”. But that was then. KS state election office. Credit card donations may be made through our “Donate” page. Kansas farmers are being sought for a national sorghum board. As we have written, the falling out dates back to 2011, when Trump was considering a run for the White House and Club for Growth issued several press releases and an op-ed from its president questioning Trump’s conservative credentials. He explained the turnabout this way: “[W]hat we base our current position on is the results. Kansas candidates for Governor, state reps and Congress (Senators / House of Representatives). On Tuesday, CBSSports' Dennis Dodd listed seven names including Buffalo's Lance Leipold, Army's Jeff Monken, Tulane's Willie Fritz, Illinois assistant Kevin Kane, Kent State's Sean Lewis, UAB's Bill Clark, and Georgia … Please contact usif you notice a candidate missing from the list or a candidate who withdrew still listed. The current Kansas kerfuffle began in March when Club for Growth ran full-page negative ads in Kansas newspapers attacking Marshall, an obstetrician/gynecologist. Subscribe now to get full access to the new sports page. Who’ll be Kansas’ next athletic director? Some national Republicans are fearful that Kobach would not be a strong candidate in a race many GOP insiders hoped Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would enter. Potential candidates. The news... ">247Sports It’s true that Club for Growth used to be vehemently opposed to Trump. When the Kansas City Star asked Club for Growth why it opposes Marshall, spokesman Joe Kilday responded: “It’s spending. 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